Year: 2019

Blowing the Whistle

It's late one early summer evening, and I'm sitting on my porch, minding my own with a glass of iced tea. The traditional summer sounds are in the air - crickets, birds, children playing... are those gunshots? I live right on the...

Politics

Free Market Democracy

Among a subset of the various and sundry candidates for the 2020 Democratic nomination that I have already discussed, there's an opinion that filing FEC paperwork entitles one to direct, unfettered access to the marketplace of...

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The 2020 Democratic Candidates

A few people decided to run for the Democratic nomination for President. Here are my thoughts on them. 1. Hillary Clinton, but played by Abe Simpson - Joe Biden. It's his turn. If he wins the nomination, Trump gets re-elected,...

Politics

My Political Compass: 15 Years

I first took the Political Compass test in 2004, shortly after I became politically aware. Those were my heady days of idealism, with the zealot's fervor of the converted. The test has remained unchanged in the intervening 15...

Mission Statement

Social Media Oblivion Retrospective

On March 1st of 2018, I decided to do an experiment: see if I could go an entire month without checking my various social media outlets*. I was heavily active on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and instead of taking a day off,...

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Amendment Proposals

Constitution writing is a thought experiment I engage in from time to time. While I've never written out an entire theoretical constitution of my own, I do have a number of ideas about how ours works/doesn't work, and how it...